ce
to _Herbert's Country Parson_, and in Bishop Hacket's _Life of Archbishop
Williams_. In _Baker's MSS._ (vol. xxxv. p. 389.) in the Public Library of
Cambridge, is an article entitled "Large Materials for writing the Life of
Mr. Nicholas Ferrar." Isaac Walton, in his _Life of George Herbert_, also
notices Ferrar, and describes minutely his mode of life at Little Gidding.
From an advertisement at the end of Francis Peck's _Memoirs of Cromwell_,
it appears that Peck had prepared for publication a _Life of Mr. Nicholas
Ferrar_, no doubt the manuscript collections noticed by MR. RIMBAULT (p.
407.):

"Little Gidding," it has been observed, "was in England what Port Royal
was in France. Ardent devotion to the Redeemer characterised both. In
each, peace, charity, good order, and love to the souls and bodies of
men, were eminently exhibited; upon each the hand of persecution fell
with unrelenting severity. Port Royal was destroyed by the Jesuits;
Little Gidding by the Puritans."

J.Y.

Hoxton.

_Arminian Nunnery in Huntingdonshire_ (Vol. ii., p. 407.).--Allow me to
refer DR. RIMBAULT to Hacket's _Life of Archbishop Williams_, Part ii. p.
50.; Izaak Walton's _Life of George Herbert_; Peter Langloft's _Chronicle_,
ed. Hearne, Preface, sect xi., Appendix to Preface, Nos. IX. and X.; _Caii
Vindiciae Antiquitatis Academiae Oxoniensis_, ed. Hearne, vol. ii. p. 683.
693. 697. 702. 713.; and _Memoirs of the Life of Mr. Nicholas Ferrar_, by
Peter Peckard, D.D., Cambridge, 8vo., 1790 (which is reprinted with
additions from a manuscript in the archiepiscopal library at Lambeth, in
Dr. Wordsworth's _Ecclesiastical Biography_). In Dr. Peckard's Preface will
be found somewhat respecting "the loss (probably the unjust detention)" of
Francis Peck's manuscript life of Nicholas Ferrar, apparently the same
manuscript which DR. RIMBAULT states he has seen.

C.H. COOPER.

Cambridge, November 16. 1850.

In Nichol's _Litterary Anecdotes_, vol. ii. p. 519., it is stated that "a
capital account of the family of Ferrar was compiled by Mr. Gough for the
sixth volume of the second edition of the _Biographica Britannica_." Of the
only two copies known to exist of the printed portion of this sixth volume
Mr. Chalmers possessed one, and he seems to have used it in the preparation
of the life of Ferrar for his _Biographical Dictionary_.

JOHN J. DREDGE.

DR. RIMBAULT will find many interesting particulars relating to the